Posts about electronics

Getting started with breadboard power supplies15 October 2018Breadboard power supplies are easy-to-use, companion modules which provide regulated voltage to the power rails of solderless breadboards. They are both easy to use and extremely useful for fast, efficient breadboard prototyping of micro-electronic projects. More…

Calculating the cost of electricity7 October 2018There are some times in life where decisions are based on cost of running an electrical devices. Comparative decisions based on, for example, Wattage alone is real easy, but what about putting those values into an actual money value. This post will show you how. More…

The 4 basic sections of an Arduino sketch18 September 2018 | Updated 12 October 2018When using the Arduino IDE to program Arduino or Arduino-like microcontrollers, there are 4 basic sections that each sketch should have. They are the comment section, the variables section, the setup section and the loop section. More…

Using the UART interface5 June 2018UART (universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter) is a communication interface used between two microcontrollers. Data signals are transferred using two lines, one for transmitting signals (Tx) and one for receiving signals (Rx). More…